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"content": "We have many talented people. If you go to Tanzania, across the border, every Tanzanian, at the time when Vitimbi is screened on their televisions, they stop all the other things they were doing to watch it. It is one of the most popular television series in Tanzania. In Kenya, when we see Ojwang and Mama Kayai come on television, we see them as a source of constant laughter and not as talent. You can see how our talented people have ended up; Mr. Ojwang, I believe, has no car. Mama Kayai walks on foot and they have to look around for fees for their children. I agree; the Nigerian movies dominate our screens. Today, the Nigerian film industry, Nollywood, generates more that US Dollars 10 billion. That is one quarter of our GDP. This is just one indicator in their economy. This House can originate legislation and I want to encourage Sen. Wako and his committee to do so--- If you go anywhere around the world, in any hotel television, you will watch National Geographic, Animal Planet and Discovery Channel which are all filmed in Kenya; Maasai Mara, Tsavo and Amboseli. Those who come to film those films that we watch simply walk in with a tourist visa and a camera and stay in the Maasai Mara for one month, paying nothing to the country and its people and they go and make billions out of our heritage. We need to legislate on how to harness our talent and our heritage that we have preserved for so long. In fact, one time I asked former President Kibaki that his Government ought to have brought up legislation so that we track and follow anywhere where wildlife from the Maasai Mara and the great migration is being showed and we ask for our royalties, so that we bring money to this country."
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